Live: Israeli forces detonate 20 homes in Jenin

Israel escalated its offensive on the occupied West Bank on Monday, according to Arabic media reports. 

Israeli soldiers blew up a house in Jenin refugee camp where they have been engaged in a major offensive, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

Israel is also sending additional troops to Tulkarm in the northern occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. 

The  UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, slammed on Monday Israel's move to ban the organisation from operating in occupied East Jerusalem. 

The Israeli ban on Unrwa will take effect on Thursday.

“It’s an unacceptable decision,” Jonathan Fowler, a spokesperson for Unrwa, as quoted by Reuters. 

“The people that we serve… we are not able to tell them what is going to happen to our services as of the end of this week,” Fowler said.

Unrwa has for decades run schools and medical clinics in occupied East Jerusalem, which Israel seized from Jordan in the 1967 War.

Palestinians of East Jerusalem mainly do not have Israeli citizenship. They have only residency cards.

Israel has not announced what will replace Unrwa. The group will continue to operate in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. 

More than 200 Unrwa staff were killed by Israeli strikes during Israel's war on Gaza. 

At least one child was killed when Israel shelled a horse-cart west of Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on Monday, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. 

The Israeli shelling killed Nadia Mohammed al-Amoudi and wounded three others, according to the report. 

Despite a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel has opened fire on Palestinians returning to their homes in northern Gaza. 

Wafa reported that al-Awda hospital received the body of the Palestinian child and the wounded. 

Several prominent Israelis, including veteran journalists and commentators, have mocked US President Donald Trump's proposal to "clean out" Gaza and forcibly transfer the Palestinian people to Jordan and Egypt. 

Haaretz, Israel's newspaper of record, issued a scathing attack on Trump's policy proposal on Monday, with the editorial board stating the strip was the "home" of more than two million Palestinians as it ridiculed suggestions that they be sent to other Arab nations along with Indonesia.

Chaim Levinson, a columnist at Haaretz, wrote: "I'm sorry, but I must disappoint you. After checking with a number of officials, both in Israel and in the relevant countries – along with diplomats involved in the negotiations – it seems this is the vision of an experienced real estate tycoon, and no such concrete plan of action exists."

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Israli attacks on the occupied West Bank are going to deepen suffering and violence on Palestinians, a group of UN special rapporteurs and independent experts warned on Monday.

“We are dismayed by the escalation of deadly violence sweeping through Jenin and the rest of the occupied West Bank,” the experts said. “Israel's repression seems to have no end in sight.”

The experts noted Israel's raid on Jenin which has killed at least 16 Palestinians.

"The Israeli Government must instruct its military and security forces to immediately cease any use of excessive force and exercise restraint and withdraw its troops from the occupied West Bank, as ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in July 2024," they said. 

Israeli soldiers stormed the town of Qaffin, north of Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Al Jazeera reported. 

The raid comes as Israeli soldiers bulldozed roads in Tulkarm, following a raid. 

Hamas's armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, confirmed on Monday that two of its members, Ihab Muhammad Atwi and Ramez Bassam Damiri, were killed after Israel launched an air strike on their vehicle in the Nur Shams refugee camp. 

More than 300,000 displaced Palestinians are returning to the besieged enclave's north after Israel agreed to allow their travel, Palestinian government in Gaza says. 

A brief statement released on Monday from the Gaza Strip's government's press office, said the masses "returned today... to the governorates of the north" of Gaza.

A Hamas delegation arrived in Cairo on Monday for ceasefire talks, according to Reuters. 

The visit comes as Israeli media reports that a meeting could be held in Qatar next week to discuss implementing the second phase of the ceasefire agreement.

On Monday, tens of thousands of Palestinians began crossing the Netzarim corridor to return to their homes in northern Gaza. Israel had delayed allowing forcibly displaced Palestinians to make the trip. 

Julia Sebutinde, the current president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has been accused of plagiarising parts of her dissenting views in the court's advisory opinion on the Israeli occupation of Palestine. 

In July last year, the 15-judge panel found that Israel's decades-long occupation of the Palestinian territories was "unlawful", and that its "near-complete separation" of people in the occupied West Bank breached international laws concerning "racial segregation" and "apartheid".

While the opinion was agreed upon by most of the judges, Sebutinde rejected the findings of the court, stating that the case should be settled through negotiations between the parties. 

At least three sentences from her dissent appear to be lifted, almost word for word, from an article published in December 2021 by Douglas J Feith in the Hudson Institute. 

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to travel to Washington DC next week for a meeting at the White House with Presidebt Donald Trump, Axios reported on Monday.

If the visit goes ahead, Netanyahu will be the first world leader to meet Trump at the White House. An unnamed source told Axios the visit was a "gesture" from Trump to Netanyahu for agreeing to the Gaza ceasefire. 

The Trump administration lobbied hard to extend the Lebanon ceasefire, the report said. 

Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, also intervened with Qatar to manage a standoff between Hamas and Israel over the release of a female Israeli hostage, the report said. 

Netanyahu's White House visit will depend on his health, following prostate surgery, according to Axios. 

Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli fire killed two people on Monday and wounded 17 others in the south in a second day of violence as residents tried again to return to border villages.

The ministry said Israeli fire killed 24 returnees on Sunday.

The strikes came after Israel and Hezbollah extended a ceasefire until 18 February. 

Speaking on Monday, Naim Qassem, the head of Hezbollah, said Israel had violated the agreement 1,350 times. 

An Israeli soldier used the muzzle of his rifle to hit New York Times journalist Aaron Boxerman, according to a report by the newspaper on Monday. 

Boxerman was standing near the entrance to a house in Jerusalem where a celebration was taking place to welcome Ashraf Zughayer home from prison. Zughayer was freed as part of the Gaza hostage swap, The New York Times reported. 

The soldier then waved his loaded rifle at another New York Times reporter, Natan Odenheimer, who identified himself as a journalist, according to the NYT. The same told Odenheimer that he didn’t care, using what the report said was an expletive. 

The Israeli soldiers also pointed their rifles at party attendees, although a video verified by NYT showed the attendees complying with the soldiers’ commands and not posing any threat. The soldiers yelled profanities at Zughayer’s relatives and "struck" his father in the chest.  

Israel's military said that its air strikes on Monday killed two people and wounded three others in the West Bank. 

The Israeli army released aerial footage of its strike on a vehicle in the Nur Shams refugee camp.

Israel said that the strike killed the head of the Hamas branch in Tulkarm along with another “terrorist”.

US President Donald Trump is facing widespread criticism and accusations of proposing "ethnic cleansing" after stating that he would like to “just clean out” Gaza and relocate its Palestinian population to neighbouring countries. 

Speaking aboard Air Force One during a flight from Las Vegas to Miami on Saturday, Trump described Gaza as a “demolition site” and suggested moving its residents to Jordan and Egypt.

“I’d like Egypt to take people. I’d like Jordan to take people,” Trump said. “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing.”

He added that the move could be either temporary or long-term, saying, “something has to happen”.

Online, Trump’s remarks quickly drew sharp criticism, with many accusing him of endorsing ethnic cleansing. 

In a video posted on Instagram, a Palestinian woman said: “We’re willing to die on our land. We won’t leave it. This is the proof right in front of Trump’s eyes. Tell the whole world: we’re ready to die on our land."

"Our land is our honour. Trump is dreaming if he thinks any of us will go to Egypt or Jordan,” she continued in the voiceover of a clip filmed from the Netzarim corridor in Gaza, where thousands of Palestinians can be seen returning to their destroyed homes in the north.

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Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's far-right finance minister, has called for the war to continue and for the realisation of Donald Trump's comments in which he called on removing Palestinians from Gaza. 

Smotrich welcomed the resignation of Israeli military chief Herzl Halevi, stating that it would change "the way we fight after the first stage of the deal" and that the Israeli military "will return to fighting until Hamas is destroyed, both militarily and civilly, and all the hostages are returned".

The far-right minister also spoke about Trump's proposed plan to "just clean out" Gaza and displace Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan. 

"There is no doubt that, in the long term, encouraging immigration is the only solution that will bring peace and security to the residents of Israel and will also ease the suffering of Gaza's residents," Smotrich said. 

He said he was working with the prime minister and Israel's cabinet to "prepare an operational plan and ensuring that President Trump's vision is realised".